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тАО07-27-2010 06:43 PM
тАО07-27-2010 06:43 PM
when i boot my ovms 8.2 (on ia64, rx2600) it goes on mountver ovms$dka100 is offline
mount verification in progress
and keeps on repeating forever never timing out. (i left it running for more than 3 hours)
i did try to ^p however it gives me on
(crash y/n), if i select y writes the dump and exits it out to rebooting with the same result,
if i select n goes back to the endless loop of offline, mount verification.
i do have a ovms 8.3 CDs, and i was able to get the $$$ prompt where i could see the IPC (by ^p) but cannnot cancel the mounting because the mounting verification is not being performed, and i am not familiar with the ovms and do not know much what to do that can break the mount verification when booting out of the disk.
can you please guide me on what to do?
thank you in advance,
./antonio/.
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тАО07-27-2010 07:04 PM
тАО07-27-2010 07:04 PM
SolutionThat mount verification behavior is usually indicative of a storage connection problem, or of a disk or SCSI controller or SCSI bus hardware error.
With this also running V8.2, this could well be software, too; there have been a number of fixes to SCSI, both with ECOs and UPDATE kits, and with the V8.3 or V8.3-1H1 releases.
Make sure the disk is seated and latched.
Swap the disk. See if the error moves with the slot.
What's the history of this disk?
Any hardware errors being logged by OpenVMS?
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тАО07-27-2010 07:19 PM
тАО07-27-2010 07:19 PM
Re: question on mount verification loop
A device enters into mount verification state when device becomes inoperative. This might occur in the following instances:
1. The device is accidentally placed off line.
2. The active port of the drive fails.
3. A hardware error occurs.
4. The device is set to write protected during a write operation.
When the device comes back on line, either through automatic failover or operator intervention, the operating system validates the volume.
Regards,
Ketan
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тАО07-27-2010 07:37 PM
тАО07-27-2010 07:37 PM
Re: question on mount verification loop
A mount-verification is triggered by certain classes of disk IO errors. OpenVMS tries to re-establish or verify the IO path to and the contents (volume label etc.) of the disk, which caused the IO error. To further analyze these mount-verifications and trying to find the underlying reason, look at OPERATOR.LOG entries and ERRLOG entries (using DECevent or WEBES/SEA) on the OpenVMS systems.
Regards,
Ketan
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тАО07-27-2010 07:42 PM
тАО07-27-2010 07:42 PM
Re: question on mount verification loop
Please refer the below link. It explains typical causes for mount verification.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_9804.html
Hope this was helpful.
Regards,
Ketan
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тАО07-27-2010 08:03 PM
тАО07-27-2010 08:03 PM
Re: question on mount verification loop
Few more links on similar topics.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_8101.html
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_9095.html
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_8764.html
Also there are lots of discussions on similar topics in ITRC. Search them using the string mount verification.
Regards,
Ketan
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тАО07-27-2010 10:27 PM
тАО07-27-2010 10:27 PM
Re: question on mount verification loop
if you can boot from the OpenVMS I64 V8.3 CD, try mounting your 'failing' system disk.
MOUNT/FOREIGN will just access the disk. It will probably fail, if it can't read the disk. If it succeed, dismount the disk and try to fully MOUNT it.
$$$ MOUNT/FOR DKA100:
$$$ DISM/NOUNL DKA100:
$$$ MOUNT/OVER=ID/NOASSI DKA100:
Mount-verifications only happen on fully mounted disks as a reaction to certain disk-IO errors.
Volker.
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тАО07-27-2010 11:29 PM
тАО07-27-2010 11:29 PM
Re: question on mount verification loop
And of course try an updated release of VMS and make sure your patches up to date.
Did this disk log errors before failure? And finally, do you have a current backup of the disk?
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тАО07-28-2010 05:02 AM
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